La Chambre aux Confitures

La Chambre aux Confitures
by Noël Dominguez

The first image

30 January 2012

 

 

 

 

Jars of colourful preserves are treated like precious antiques at this Paris jam shop by French architect Noël Dominguez.

Rows of the glass pots are arranged in neat rows on the curved plywood shelves of La Chambre aux Confitures, as well as on crystal platters and inside bell jars.

The curved shelves create an oval-shaped outline around the interior of the shop.

Copper-fronted cabinets in one corner fold open to reveal a cooking demonstration area.

You can see all our stories about shop interiors here, including a wine shop with bottle-shaped shutters.

Photography is by Fred Toulet.

Here’s a description of the project from Noël Dominguez:

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« La Chambre aux Confitures »
At No. 9 rue des Martyrs in the ninth arrondissement of Paris, we are invited to design the first boutique of La Chambre aux Confitures.

The existing local presently exhibits various unfavourable characteristics: single orientation, ambiguous contours, bearing point at the center of gravity…
We envision a new room with clear boundaries, in the shape of the ellipse.

In between we create a large birch plywood cabinet that presents the essential La Chambre aux Confitures products- small glass jars and their precious contents.

Three elements punctuate this project: the two entrances (to the street and to the court) which are treated wood in flat screen, and the copper details that show when the panels are deployed during cooking demonstrations/recipe presentations.

This project celebrates the relevance of the theme of the store (“The House”).

We anticipate the creation of the first cell of the plan (the room) and its architectural space- structure, function and creative illumination.

Program: Delicatessen
Client: La Chambre aux Confitures – Lise Bienaimé
Cost HT: 60 000 Euros
Surface: 25 sqm
Team: Noël Dominguez Architect, representative. Arnold Bogat, collaborator Agathe Delecourt and Noémi Langlois-Meurinne,  designers involved
Calendar: March to September 2011
Businesses: LMP (TCE), Titom (Joinery), 5 and Co (Locksmith), Ets. Maestrini (Glass and facade), Granito (Floor)

Naked City Landscape by Natascha Madeiski

Naked City Landscape by Natascha Madeiski
and Alexander Graef

Paper perspective


13 December 2010

 

 

 

Designer Natascha Madeiski and architect Alexander Graef used cut-out paper to create this wintry window display for Septieme Etage boutique in Geneva.

Called Naked City Landscape, the installation is an adaptation of paper lanterns the pair presented earlier in the year and depicts buildings and snowy patterns.

More stories about paper on Dezeen »

Here are some more details from Madeiski and Graef:

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UK based designer Natascha Madeiski has teamed up with architect Alexander Graef for this year’s Christmas display at Septieme Etage boutique in Geneva.

The display utilises full scale moments and situations of their ‘Naked City’ range of paper lamps, which were first shown at Rossanna Orlandi at last year’s fuorisalone and are currently being exibited at Triennale Design Museum in Milan and ‘Enlightenment’ exhibition in Rotterdam.

The display as well as the lamps are made from Fedrigoni Pergamenata paper using pure ECF cellulose with FSC certification, chosen for its translucence, robustness and environmental performance. Lamps are hand made to order and come in two sizes, 120cm x 70cm x 50 cm and 40cm x 70cm x 50cm.

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Fervency Series by Asaf Weinbroom

Fervency Series by Asaf Weinbroom

Simple joinery product design

29 January 2012

 

The joints of this handcrafted task light by Israeli industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom comprise strips of walnut veneer clamped round the oak base and head.

Above and top: Brown
The lamp is part of a series of four designs combining wood with brass, copper and Corian that Weinbroom presented at an exhibition called Fervency during Jerusalem design week last month.

Above: Giben
Giben has a flat baton in the middle like a wooden ruler joined by two wooden disks – one in light wood to match the stem and the other in a darker tone to match the base.

The Corian Bra lamp (above) features copper arms with the joints, head and clamp in Corian, while the Long light (below) has a clamp that’s simply a wooden rod inside a brass tube.

To see more works of Asaf Weinbroom click here.

Above: Long
We published last week another story about Mantis table lamp by bottcherhenssler for vertigo bird.

Above: Long
Photographs are by Gilad Langer.

Above: Long
Here are more details by Asaf Weinbroom:

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I chose to design a series of table lamps because a table lamp is the most intimate lamp physically closest to the person using it.

Above: Long
In addition there are plenty of options for technical Joints and movement which were always a great source of inspiration for me.

Above: Corian Bra
For the Jerusalem design week exhibition “Fervency” currated by Tal Gur last month, I chose to design a series of four table lamps.

Above: Corian Bra
The series show tests and experiments of technologies, mechanisms and surprising combinations between wood and various materials.

Above: Corian Bra
Brown - adjustable table lamp with laminated veneer hinges casing the base and head of the lamp. Materials: White Oak and Walnut wood

Above: Giben
Giben is a playful table lamp with a childish appearance. Two axes allow the tuning of the lamp to all directions.  Materials: Ash and Walnut wood.

Above: Giben
Corian Bra table lamp is attached to a surface, a shelf or desk, with a wood screw. This lamp is a development of my earlier “Bra” version; I switched the brass pipes with copper pipes and added the corian. Materials: Ash wood, corian and copper pipes.

Above: Giben
Long Light is an attached to surface lamp. I developed a clasp allowing a tight grip of the lamp to the surface due to the friction between the wood and the brass pipe. Materials: Maple wood and Brass pipes.

Chin Chin Laboratorists by Shai Akram

Chin Chin Laboratorists by Shai Akram
and Andrew Haythornthwaite

29 July 2010

 

 

Ice cream is frozen with liquid nitrogen in front of customers at this ice cream parlour designed by designers Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite in Camden, north London.

Called Chin Chin Laboratorists, the shop features a different workstation for each stage in the ice cream-making process.

Scaffolding links together the colour-coded boxes forming storage and work surfaces, and extends to task light lights above each station.

Here’s some more information from Akram and Haythornthwaite:

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London designers Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite were commissioned by The Chin Chin Club (Founders: Ahrash Akbari-Kalhur and Nyisha Weber) to define the direction, and design the interior, of their nitrogen ice-cream parlour in Camden.

Customers visiting the shop order and experience the making of bespoke ice-creams frozen onsite with liquid nitrogen, while the rest of the space is an experimental kitchen dedicated to the development of modern confections.

Concept: The studios approach was to build a theatrical laboratory, where the performance of making the products was the key focus of the space – molecular structures and diagrams formed the foundation for the identity and interior.

The Camden branch was given the subtitle of Chin Chin Laboratorists.

Solution: Each stage of the ice-cream making process (decanting, mixing, freezing, topping, etc) has been separated and translated into its own workstation, taking its visual character from the particular tasks performed at that point in the process.

The stations connect together across the space to form a self contained, three dimensional schematic diagram of a nitrogen ice-cream making machine.

Stations are built using a framework of scaffolding which holds colour- coded boxes.

These boxes house the equipment and ingredients needed for each stage, floating at optimal heights throughout the space.

Electrical wiring runs internally through the structural pipe work, taking power sockets directly to the locations where they are needed.

Lighting is an extension of the scaffolding framework, terminating in directional task lights for illuminating work areas.

Outside the shop (in the sunny spot) are bench seats and swings made with the same construction methods as the interior.